Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked *Up About the County Capitol. Ex-sheriff O'Connor of Knimaiq was in the city yesterday on his way home from a business trip/ to Chicago. —O • Attorney T. B. Cumrngham of Kentland was here yesterday to see Judge Hanley on some probate matter. —° — ’ New suits filed: No, 7621. James Nixon vs. Seth. B. Moffitt, et al ; foreclosure of mechanic’s lein. Demand SIOO. • .• •' O'. .. ■ ' X. The last of the cases for game law violations about Demotte arising out of the arrest and conviction of "old man Yeagley” some months ago, was disposed of Friday, when Charlie Fish of about Virgie was nabbed by waiting officers for having sold quail to Yeagley and who was implicated in the latter’s confession of guilt as one of the parties from whom he had bought game. Pis'll was arraigned before Squire Irwin and plead guilty to the charge. His Honor assesed a fine of $lO and costs, $32.60 in all (S2O of which goes to the game office fund) which Fish liquidated the amount and was discharged. Sheriff Shirer’s crazy boarder from Newton county is now taking his meals as regular as clock-work, and seems- about as rational as anyone now’. He claims to be a railroader, and the last he remembers, he says, was working for a farmer near Kankakee, .111., the Saturday before the 4th. He thinks he was drugged in Chicago, but the sheriff thinks he is a ‘‘dope fiend.” He claims the scar over his eye was caused from a carbuncle but it has more the apeparance of having been caused by a terrible Wow with' some missle. As Kearney—-the name he gives—has been declared insane, it will take contradictory legal action to set him which it seems likely will be done by the Newtpn county authorities, whose prisoner 'he is.